My house is normally pretty tidy but our bedroom is hell hole, anyone else?

[Peckarolloveragain]

Is it because I dont value myself

Or because I care more about what other people think than my own comfort?

I make huge efforts keeping everything nice and then my bedroom looks like kevin the teenagers!

Every now and then I gut it but it never stays tidy for long.

Is it just me?

Nope not just you

not just you. I have a new plan. Every day I tidy 'my side'.
I am waiting to see how long it is until my OH gets so sick of 'his side' that he feels compelled to tidy it.

Lol mine is just a dumping ground for when I tidy the rest of the house.

No I am the opposite - the rest of my house can look like a tip but my room is always tidy or I can't sleep.

snap, vile. Piles of clean towels waitin to be put away, of ironing (not a big pile)
lap top on a stool, travel bag, his clothes that arents dirty OR clean but wear again! It's how he choses to do it :D
my bedside cabinet is heaving with shite, his is just a clock, but my 2 small topped cupboards are littered. I tried to sort 1 out and keep it clear as I got 2 jewl boxes for my bday, its kinda struggling LOL
the tv etc on top of the large chest of drawers are soooooooooooooooo dusty!
sock fluff on the floor

Having said that, I sleep in the spare room which is spotless, dd's room is pretty good, just last night pj's on the floor.

actually its all HIS FAULT!

peck there is another mnetter on here with the same problem, i suggested we do a mn bedroom clear out thread if you would be interested

ooohh i would be very interested yes!!!

i cant even blame my DH, Im the messy one in the bedroom!

Me too, every few months one of use will have a mass clear out but within days it back to the state its in now

I am in my bedroom to sleep only therefore I don't care what state it is, whereas the downstairs where I do spend most of my time I like tidyish...

Same. My bedroom seems to have turned into a floordrobe for the entire household. There are stacks of clean washing everywhere, so there is always somebody rummaging through everything looking for socks/clothes. It's my fault because I sort all the clean washing in there, but when I go to bed and find washing all over the bed, I put it in neat piles around the room - where it stays

Every morning when DH has to pick his way around the clothes I feel really guilty and swear to sort things out. But then something else always crops up.

Mine is the same, we have a tiny Bedroom and about 4 wardrobes worth of clothes stuffed into 1 small wardrobe and a delapidated wooden/canvas thing.

Our small double takes up 99% of the room and everything else is squeezed round it, we clear it out once a month and within days its the same.

Yep - same as others, my bedroom is the dumping ground for when I tidy the rest of the house and can't find homes for everything, piles of clean washing waiting to be put away, piles of DIY equipment waiting to be utilised...

It's like everything thing else when you are a mom - you always look after yourself LAST

We should make an effort with our bedrooms though - they should be sanctuaries for us, not the depths of 'to-do' list hell.!

I thought it was just me!

My bedroom is a tip. Toys that the kids bring into our room to play with, piles and piles of washing waiting to be ironed and stacked in the corner as I've no other place to store them and you don't want to look under the bed because that's the worst!

I give up, because as everyone else says, within days of sorting it out, it's back to being a mess again.

Me too! We live in a flat and don't have much storage, so our bedroom is like sleeping in someone's loft in that it's got every little bit of crap that has no where else to go. I always think it's like the portrait of Dorian Grey - the tidier the rest of my home, the messier my bedroom.

i'm so pleased it's not just me with a grim bedroom. I did manage to tidy it at the weekend and it should be nice for a week or two.

i tend to dump stuff in there as downstairs is open plan with no cupboards, so if i have guests i need to get all the junk out of sight.

I was caught out a few weeks ago by a friend who, when I was preoccupied by DD2 downstairs, called to me that she was going to look at my bedroom because she'd never seen it.

It was such a mess and I ran upstairs to explain. She was on her way down saying that she hadn't turned the light on, so couldn't really see.

I was not impressed, but it has encouraged me to keep slightly more on top of it!

Pecka - we've lived in this house for nearly 10 years and our bedroom has generally been a dumping ground for stuff.

Last year we finally got round to decorating it and the act of removing everything in the bedroom made us think about what was going back in - and where to put the piles of stuff that would inevitably be created in a normal week. (We slept in the living room, it took us MONTHS to decorate )

Around 9 months since we moved back in to bedroom and although piles of stuff do appear, it's easier to tackle them, and it's worth it because the bedroom is fundamentally tidy.

Whereas the kitchen still has that heap of paperwork/magazines/toys etc that I can never completely get on top of...

Not just you, I try so hard to keep the rest of the house nice that our bedroom looks like a hovel! I'm trying to teach my toddler to keep her room tidy, but she just comes into my room and says "Messy"!!! . Oh well we can't do everything. Don't be soo hard on yourself .

Our "bedroom" is a complete nightmare. We're renovating so the upstairs is unusable at the moment. All three of us are sleeping in the one room downstairs, along with several bookcases and a piano! We have nowhere to hang clothes other than a makeshift clothes rail upstairs, and it's been like this for months. AAARGH!